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The letter yogh ( ; Middle English: ) was used in Middle English and Older Scots, representing ''y'' () and various velar phonemes. It was derived from the Old English form of the letter ''g''. In Middle English writing, tailed z came to be indistinguishable from yogh. In Middle Scots the character yogh became confused with a cursive z and the early Scots printers often used z when yogh was not available in their fonts.〔.〕 Consequently, some Lowland Scots words have a ''z'' in place of a yogh. Yogh is shaped similarly to the Arabic numeral three (3), which is sometimes substituted for the character in online reference works. There is some confusion about the letter in the literature, as the English language was far from standardised at the time. The upper and lower case letters (, ) are represented in Unicode by code points and respectively. == Pronunciation == In Modern English, ''Yogh'' is pronounced either , , with a short ''o'', or , , , with a long ''o''.〔.〕 It stood for and its various allophones—including and the voiced velar fricative —as well as the phoneme ( in modern English spelling). In Middle English, it also stood for the phoneme and its allophone () as in ("night", then pronounced as spelled: ). Sometimes, yogh stood for or , as in the word , "yowling". In Middle Scots, it represented the sound in the clusters , and written ''l'' and ''n''.〔.〕 Yogh was also used for rather than ''y''. In medieval Cornish manuscripts, yogh was used to represent the voiced interdental fricative , as in , now written , pronounced . 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Yogh」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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